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Automatic Emergency Braking, or AEB, uses radar to monitor a vehicle's closeness to the vehicle ahead. If it detects a frontal collision, the system warns the driver. In this episode of SAE Eye on Engineering, Editor-In-Chief Lindsay Brooke looks at Nissan and Toyota's announcement to make AEB standard on nearly all of their 2018 U.S. models. SAE Eye on Engineering also airs Monday mornings on WJR 760 AM Detroit's Paul W. Smith Show.

An electrically-driven, intelligent brake unit has been developed, to be combined with a regenerative braking system in electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) which went into production in 2010 - 11. The brake pedal force is assisted by an electrically driven motor, without using vacuum pressure, unlike conventional braking systems. The actuator can be implemented to coordinate with a regenerative braking system, and to have adjustable pedal feel through use of a unique pressure-generating mechanism and a pedal-force compensator. In this paper, we describe features of the actuator mechanism and performance test results Presenter Yukio Ohtani, Hitachi Automotive Systems